Closest web-safe match: #33CC99

Color Details and Palettes for #37D785

Details about the color Envy’s Love#37D785

Conversions, palettes, contrast & design ideas for this color.

Emerald family Cool WCAG ink: dark
HEX #37D785 RGB rgb(55, 215, 133) HSL hsl(149, 67%, 53%) CMYK cmyk(74%, 0%, 38%, 16%)

Color profile

About Color Hex #37D785

#37D785 is a cool color from the Emerald family, closest in name to “Envy’s Love”. In RGB it is rgb(55, 215, 133); in HSL, hsl(149, 67%, 53%).

The color Envy’s Love, with hexadecimal code #37d785, resides within the green color family, the hue most connected to nature, growth, and renewal. Green soothes the eye more than any other color, making it ideal for wellness, sustainability, and financial brands. Additionally, it evokes emotions such as Refreshment, Clarity, Communication and Serenity. Green is often linked to nature and growth universally, and in some cultures, it symbolizes fertility, renewal, and even immortality. In Islam, green holds significant religious meaning. At 67% saturation, this color is clearly chromatic yet balanced—colorful enough to be distinctive without overwhelming adjacent content. With a mid-range lightness of 53%, it offers excellent versatility—readable as text on light backgrounds and visible as an element on dark ones. This color is ideal for designs that aim to express Refreshment, Clarity, Communication, or Serenity. It can be effectively used in web design, branding, and marketing materials to attract attention and convey specific messages.

Key facts

RGB 55, 215, 133 red · green · blue HSL 149° 67% 53% hue · sat · light HSV 149° 74% 84% design-app pickers CMYK 74 0 38 16 print inks, % Luminance 0.511 0 dark → 1 light On black 11.22:1 ✓ AA contrast ratio On white 1.87:1 ✕ AA contrast ratio Web-safe #33CC99 closest web-safe Best text black ideal foreground Character Vivid cool · emerald family

The story of this color

History, Usage, Psychology & Design Ideas for #37D785

Envy’s Love (#37D785) belongs to the Emerald color family.

This vivid mid-tone strikes the ideal balance between intensity and readability, making it a strong candidate for primary brand colors, interactive UI elements, and logo design where immediate recognition is essential.

Historical Background

Emerald green takes its name from the precious gemstone revered since at least 330 BC, when Cleopatra's emerald mines supplied the ancient world. Pantone named Emerald its Color of the Year for 2013, citing its associations with sophistication and renewal. Art Nouveau designers like Alphonse Mucha used emerald tones extensively, pairing them with gold to create their signature opulent aesthetic.

Design & Usage Tips

Emerald green conveys upscale elegance and is ideal for luxury brands, jewelry companies, and high-end hospitality. It pairs naturally with gold, brass, and cream for a rich, timeless palette. In web design, emerald buttons on a white background combine trust (green) with premium appeal.

Sitting on the cool side of the spectrum (hue 149°), it promotes a feeling of calm distance and intellectual clarity, which is why cool hues dominate corporate identities, healthcare design, and productivity tools. With 67% saturation, it occupies a comfortable middle ground: colorful enough to be distinctive, yet restrained enough for extended reading or large surface areas.

Psychological Impact

Emerald feels aspirational and abundant—it suggests growth coupled with achievement. Unlike casual greens, emerald carries an air of refinement that makes it suitable for formal invitations, gala events, and exclusive product lines.

With a mid-range lightness of 53%, this tone is highly versatile: dark enough to serve as body text on white, yet light enough to stand out on charcoal or navy backgrounds.

Creative Design Ideas

Use emerald as a dark background for product photography, allowing gold or white products to shine. Combine emerald tiles with marble textures for luxury real-estate branding. In fashion e-commerce, emerald category headers signal the premium collection.

Every format

#37D785 Color Conversions

Every way to write Envy’s Love — one-tap copy on every format; tap on any card to learn what it is and when to use it.

12 formats
HEX Web
#37D785

Hexadecimal is the web’s universal color notation — two digits each for red, green and blue. Drop it straight into HTML, CSS or any design tool.

RGB Screen
rgb(55, 215, 133)

RGB is the additive Red-Green-Blue model every screen uses to emit light. The default choice for websites, apps and on-screen UI.

HSL Web
hsl(149, 67%, 53%)

HSL breaks a color into Hue, Saturation and Lightness — the most intuitive way to lighten, darken or mute a color in CSS.

HSV HSB Design
hsv(149, 74%, 84%)

HSV (also called HSB) maps Hue, Saturation and Value/Brightness. It is the model behind the color pickers in Photoshop, Figma and most design apps.

HWB CSS 4
hwb(149 22% 16%)

HWB blends a pure hue with Whiteness and Blackness — a painter-friendly model added in CSS Color 4 for quick tints and shades.

CMYK Print
cmyk(74%, 0%, 38%, 16%)

CMYK is the subtractive Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black ink model. Use these values when preparing artwork for a printer or commercial press.

OKLCH Modern
oklch(77.94% 0.175 155.43)

OKLCH is a modern, perceptually-uniform space (Lightness, Chroma, Hue). It powers smooth gradients and accessible palettes in today’s CSS.

OKLab Modern
oklab(77.94% -0.159 0.073)

OKLab is the Cartesian form of OKLCH — ideal for blending and interpolating colors without the muddy midpoints older spaces produce.

CIELAB L*a*b* Perceptual
L: 76.74, a: -58.91, b: 29.09

CIELAB is a device-independent, perceptually-uniform space. It is the standard for measuring color difference (ΔE) and matching across devices.

LCH Perceptual
L: 76.74, C: 65.70, H: 153.72

LCH is CIELAB in cylindrical form — Lightness, Chroma and Hue — letting you adjust vividness and hue while staying perceptually even.

XYZ CIE Science
X: 30.11, Y: 51.11, Z: 30.47

CIE XYZ is the 1931 master space that underpins every other model here — the scientific bridge used to convert between color systems.

Decimal int Code
3659653

The 24-bit integer value of the color — handy for databases, APIs, game engines and low-level graphics code.

Channel breakdown

RGB Color Percentages for #37D785

How much red, green and blue light mixes into Envy’s Love.

Red 55/255 13.7% Green 215/255 53.4% Blue 133/255 33.0%

Percentages show each channel's share of the total light (R + G + B) in Envy’s Love.

Ink coverage

CMYK Ink Levels & Print Guide for #37D785

Ink needed to reproduce Envy’s Love in four-color print. Heaviest ink: Cyan.

74% CYAN 0% MAGENTA 38% YELLOW 16% KEY

Print tip: treat these values as a starting point — final output depends on printer profile, paper stock and calibration.

Accessibility · WCAG

Luminance & Contrast for #37D785

How bright Envy’s Love is, and how far black and white text clear each WCAG bar.

Relative luminance 0.511
0 · dark1 · light

Contrast ratio · 1:1 → 21:1 (log scale)

Aa Black text 11.22:1 ✓ AA ✓ AAA ✓ Large
Aa White text 1.87:1 ✕ AA ✕ AAA ✕ Large

Developer shortcuts

Quick CSS Snippets for #37D785

Copy-and-paste CSS for Envy’s Love — per-line copy, or grab the whole block.

envy-s-love.css
background-color: #37D785;
color: #37D785;
border: 2px solid #37D785;
background-color: rgb(55, 215, 133);
background-color: hsl(149, 67%, 53%);
--color: #37D785;

Shades · light to dark

#37D785 Monochrome Palette

Lighter and darker steps of Envy’s Love — the color's full brightness range in one strip.

#EBFBF3
#CDF5E1
#AFEFCE
#91E9BC
#73E3AA
#55DD97
#37D785
#2FB771
#27975D
#1E7649
#165635
#0E3621
#06160D

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Harmony · 180° apart

#37D785 Complementary Palette

Two colors opposite on the wheel — maximum contrast for attention-grabbing accents.

#37D785
#D7378A

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Harmony · adjacent hues

#37D785 Analogic Palette

Neighboring hues on the wheel — harmonious, calm combinations that feel unified.

#37D785
#37D7D5
#3AD737
#378AD7
#8AD737
#373AD7
#D7D537

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Harmony · 120° apart

#37D785 Triadic Palette

Three colors evenly spaced on the wheel — vibrant and energetic, yet balanced.

#37D785
#8437D7
#D78437

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Harmony · 90° apart

#37D785 Quad Palette

Four colors evenly spaced on the wheel (tetradic) — rich schemes with multiple accents.

#37D785
#373AD7
#D7378A
#D7D537

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Accessibility

Color Blindness Simulation for #37D785

How Envy’s Love reads across five kinds of color vision — a ✓ Friendly verdict means the color difference stays distinguishable for that vision type.

#37D785
#73679E
#7C7E99
#3FA9AC
#AFAFAF
Normal vision full color Deuteranopia green weakness ✕ Not friendly Protanopia red weakness ✕ Not friendly Tritanopia blue-yellow weakness ✕ Not friendly Achromatopsia total color blindness ✕ Not friendly

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Harmony overview

Color Harmonies for #37D785

The lead color from each harmony scheme, side by side — a shortcut to the full palettes above.

#D7378A
#37D7D5
#8437D7
#373AD7
Complementary opposite hue Analogous adjacent hue Triadic 120° apart Tetradic (Quad) 90° apart

Perceptually nearby

#37D785 Nearby Colors

A step away in brightness, richness or shade — each still feels like the same color.

Illicit Green#55EE99
Seaweed#11CC77
Illicit Green#66FFAA
Green Mana#00BB66
Shivering Green#00DD77
Magical Malachite#55CC88
Envy’s Love#00DD99
Electric Lettuce#66CC77

From the color-name library

Colors Similar to #37D785

The closest named colors to #37D785 — same mood, each with its own character.

Envy’s Love#2DD78D
Seaweed#18D17B
Shivering Green#24DD7E
Magical Malachite#22CC88
Limonana#11DD66
Vegetation#5CCD97
Grotesque Green#64E986
Hello Spring#44DD66
Electric Lettuce#7BD181
Enchanted Emerald#7ED89A
Alienated#00CC55
Battletoad#11CC55

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Inspiration

Explore Vibrant Images Featuring Envy’s Love (#37d785)

Curated Unsplash photos that carry the mood of Envy’s Love — hover any tile to download it or view the original.

Good to know

Frequently Asked Questions about #37D785

#37D785 is a cool color from the Emerald family. Its closest matched name is “Envy’s Love”, matched perceptually with the CIEDE2000 color-difference formula. In RGB it is rgb(55, 215, 133); in HSL, hsl(149, 67%, 53%).
In RGB, #37D785 is rgb(55, 215, 133); in HSL it is hsl(149, 67%, 53%); and in CMYK — the model used for print — it is cmyk(74%, 0%, 38%, 16%).
#37D785 has a contrast ratio of 11.22:1 against black and 1.87:1 against white. For readability, black body text meets the WCAG AA threshold of 4.5:1 on it, while white does not.
The direct complement of #37D785 is #D7378A (opposite on the color wheel). For ready-made combinations, this page includes monochrome, analogous, triadic and tetradic palettes built from #37D785 in the palette sections above.